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New Title – California Consumer Privacy Act Annotated

PLI Press is excited to announce the publication of a new treatise on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the first law of its kind in the United States providing consumer privacy protections.

California Consumer Privacy Act Annotated equips businesses and practitioners with the tools they need to understand the data they collect and how that data is used, disclosed, and stored, and then develop the framework, policies, and procedures to meet the CCPA notice requirements and to respond to data subject requests. This timely book takes into account the final text of proposed regulations the Attorney General submitted to the California Office of Administrative Law on June 1, 2020.

This thorough treatise includes advice on:

  • Determining whether an entity meets certain size and scope thresholds to be subject to the CCPA
  • Evaluating whether personal information collected from consumers, households, and devices is protected under the CCPA or whether an exemption applies
  • Understanding the considerations surrounding the sale of personal information by a business to a third party
  • Drafting sound notices at collection and privacy policies
  • Understanding the rights the CCPA grants to consumers regarding their personal information, as well as the different exceptions and limitations to these rights, in setting up processes and procedures for compliance
  • Building an infrastructure and creating procedures for managing and responding to consumer requests under the CCPA
  • Evaluating security requirements and practices in light of the new private right of action in which consumers can seek actual damages and statutory damages for a personal information security breach that is the result of a business’s failure to use reasonable security

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

In Case You Missed It… PLI Program COVID-19 and Issues for Legal Librarians

PLI recently hosted Steven A. Lastres, Director of Knowledge Management Services at Debevoise & Plimpton and Kathryn McRae, Director of Research & Knowledge at Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP for a lively discussion on the unique challenges facing law librarians as virtual work environments become the new normal.

A recording of this one-hour webcast and program materials are available online and free to access now through June 30 using the priority code FREE COVID at checkout.

Treatise Update: Friedman and Smith on Contracts

Friedman and Smith on Contracts and Conveyances of Real Property (Eighth Edition) delivers coverage and analysis of the most current developments in real estate conveyancing to assist attorneys representing parties in the sale of real property in drafting sound agreements. This treatise contains sample forms, clauses, and checklists that simplify and accelerate transactions.

Highlights of this release include:

  • Chapter 2, Parties to Contract, advises that well-drafted contract consistently describes the name of the seller in all parts of the contract; and cautions that describing the seller’s name as “Owner of record” in the contract may violate the statute of frauds requirement.
  • Chapter 4, Purchase Price and Consideration, discusses contractsthat provide for a credit to the buyer based on future events; and the distinction between earnest money and a deposit upon a buyer’s default.
  • Chapter 5, Statute of Frauds, covers the use of promissory estoppel as an alternative to the doctrine of part performance to take a contract out of the statute of frauds; and the trend by some states in recognizing fraud and other tort claims as exceptions to the statute of frauds.  
  • Chapter 7, Property Quality, provides an overview of the various state statutes of limitations and statutes of repose for certain warranty claims.
  • Chapter 8, Misrepresentations by Sellers and Buyers, discusses seller’s liability for their broker’s misrepresentations.
  • Chapter 9, Mortgage Financing, covers an “absolute deed,” which is intended as security and gives rise to an equitable mortgage.
  • Chapter 23, Contract Remedies for Buyer Default, includes a state statute that provides for the forfeiture of the buyer’s payment if the parties agreed that the payment is “earnest money.”
  • Chapter 27, Deed Execution and Delivery, updated to include a discussion of acknowledgment of a deed.
  • Chapter 28, Deed Covenants of Title, includes a discussion of Trial v. Dragon, a Texas case where the court refused to apply estoppel to the grantor’s heirs who acquired their interest through their mother’s estate.

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

What’s New on PLI PLUS

We add content to PLI PLUS every month to ensure our subscribers have access to the most up-to-date and relevant secondary source legal documents. Renowned legal experts regularly update our acclaimed Treatises, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.

Click here to see what we added in May!

One-Hour Briefing: COVID-19 and Issues for Legal Librarians

LIVE WEBCAST: June 11, 2020 3:00 pm EDT

As the legal community adjusts to the COVID-19 new normal virtual work environment, law librarians face unique challenges.  It is vitally important for law librarians to be proactive in monitoring the needs of the respective practice areas they support, including ensuring adequate research is being performed in those hot Covid-19 practice areas and ensuring alerts have been set up to monitor late breaking legislative and regulatory changes. Additionally, now is the time to proactively communicate the existence of virtual research tools and provide training when lawyers cannot fall back on print.

Please join Steven A. Lastres, Director of Knowledge Management Services at Debevoise & Plimpton and Kathryn McRae, Director of Research & Knowledge at Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP for a discussion addressing:

  • The long term opportunities this pandemic provides to eliminate all print from remaining collections
  • How to proactively market AI and data analytics tools to reluctant lawyers
  • Staffing considerations and project assignments
  • Virtual training options for summer associates
  • Long-term team management
  • Leveraging alternate electronic library resources
  • Vendor communication

This program is free to attend. Register online with the priority code FREE COVID.

Test Drive the PLI PLUS Search Widget

The PLI PLUS search widget can be embedded into any knowledge management portal, whether it’s your library’s intranet page or a standard web page, a SharePoint page or some other format. This simple search box gives your organization a direct line to more than 90,000 legal documents on PLI PLUS.

Test drive the widget right here:

Interested in adding this to your webpage? Write us at PLUS@pli.edu and we’ll send you the code.

New Title! Healthcare Employment Practice

PLI Press is pleased to announce the publication of Healthcare Employment Practice: Policy, Law and Procedure, a new treatise addressing the employment conflicts and challenges that mark today’s hospital and healthcare system.

The hospital and healthcare environment in the U.S. has become more fractured and more fractious in recent years. Job satisfaction is down, contracts are much more complex and the covenants which bind doctors and other healthcare personnel have locked up the futures for many professionals. This clear and concise guidebook responds to these complex issues with examples and details to save time, reduce errors and improve employee satisfaction. It explores how the system actually operates, and suggests how lawyers, human resource professionals and hospital management teams can improve their outcomes through astute planning and careful drafting of agreements.

This book includes:

  • Step-by-step, term-by-term guidance on physician employment contracts, with an emphasis on the problems presented by restrictive covenants, and a full sample Physician Employment Agreement
  • Labor and employment law as it affects healthcare industry employees
  • Issues presented by telemedicine
  • Stark and anti-kickback law compliance

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

Getting Started with PLI PLUS

New to PLI PLUS or need a refresher? Watch our new training video! This 3-minute tutorial details the search capabilities on the research platform and shows how to browse and access any book published by PLI PRESS.

If you have questions or need research assistance, send us an email at plus@pli.edu. We look forward to hearing from you!

For additional training videos and reference guides, visit the PLI Librarian Training Center.

Happy National Library Week from PLI!

Greetings from our department zoom call.

It’s National Library Week, and we at PLI are especially proud to celebrate this year. Access to information is never more important than amid a global health crisis. Over the past several weeks, we’ve been in awe of the ways libraries of all types and sizes are rising to the meet the demands of this challenging period despite being forced to close physical locations. We are particularly impressed by those law librarians who—if our inboxes serve as indication—are hard at work managing resources and providing remote access during these uncertain times.